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Bad Chili

Bad Chili

CrimeHardboiled
Pages
329
Published
2002
Language
French

Synopsis

Hap Colquitt returns from his offshore oil job to find his best friend Leonard framed for a string of murders and caught in a conspiracy involving a biker gang and a corrupt local official. The two bickering martial-arts experts team up to uncover the truth, fight their way through a deadly underworld, and clear Leonard's name in a darkly comic, hardboiled tale of loyalty and violence.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkGrittyTenseFunny
RevengeBetrayalMorally GreyMorally Grey

Genres

Crime Hardboiled Noir

About the author

J
Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of horror, crime, western and science fiction, born in Gladewater, Texas, and long based in Nacogdoches. He has written more than forty novels and many short stories, comics and screenplays, all steeped in the East Texas setting. He is best known for the Hap and Leonard crime series, the novella Bubba Ho-Tep and the novel The Bottoms, which won the Edgar Award. He has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards.